[sdenton4]

Half of automating tomato harvesting was breeding a tomato that could survive the harvesters. (Granted they also taste relatively horrible, but now we all eat them because they are cheap and ubiquitous.)

[pas]

That sounds fascinating. Do you happen to have some details, sources, videos, lectures about this?

[sdenton4]

Here's a short article:

https://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/news/how-mechanical-to...

on edit: I also went ahead and made that article a seperate post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27937200